Morphine in His Coffee: Remembering Dennis Potter on DVD
New collection honors prolific British TV playwright
Terminal illness failed to blunt Potter’s edge. “I’m not interested in reassuring people,” he tells Bragg. “Bugger that.” But he is almost Zen in his acceptance of mortality, his noticing of the transient but crucial pleasure of the plum blossoms in his home town of Ross-on-Wye. “My only regret,” he says finally, visibly exhausted, “would be to die four pages too early.” Then he shuffles out of the studio to get back to work on his last two plays, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus. That both turned out to be minor Dennis Potter is not a tragic irony, but part of the ballast that props up many a genius of vast output.
DENNIS POTTER: 3 TO REMEMBER | Released by Koch Vision | $39.98
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